Passengers say Bulwell's new-look bus station looks 'lovely' as it finally re-opens to the public. Since January 2023, there have been temporary bus stops until the bus station near Main Street was completed.
Nottingham and Derby City Council have both secured £161 million from the Department of Transport to invest in local transport infrastructure. Previously, people had said that Bulwell Bus Station’s revamp was ‘much-needed.’
As part of the new and improved station, there are now: new shelters and canopies, upgraded real-time information signs, new benches, improved walkways for pedestrians and a better waiting environment. Work at the station finished on May 13.
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Ally Heardon, 25 lives in Bulwell. The sales assistant said: “It looks much better, I think it’s fair to say that a better bus station may mean more people coming to visit Bulwell. There aren’t any bins and I’ve already seen a water bottle dumped on one of the benches but apart from that, I think it looks great, it feels bigger.”
A number of NCT buses stop at Bulwell Bus Station including the brown line, 17, the orange line, 35, the yellow line 70 and the light blue line, 79.
Now retired, Andrew Alpin lives in Bulwell. The 64-year-old would have liked to have seen the public toilets near the bus station get refurbished too. He said: “I like it [the new station] there should be bins, there used to be bins next, the toilets needed doing; they’re disgusting.” The bus station was expected to reopen on April 20 however, there was a slight delay.
The new bus station has also been made more environmentally-friendly and sustainable through solar powered bus shelter lighting, and new greenery introduced in planters along the footpaths to increase biodiversity.
Lesley Smith, 65 lives in Bulwell. Now retired, she said: “I think it looks lovely, you can tell the difference, the bus station was in desperate need of refurbishment.”
Lesley continued: “Hopefully people respect it, the last thing you’d want is to hear that it’s been trashed, hundreds of people use this everyday and it will prove that in Bulwell, we can have nice things and look after it like other parts of Nottingham.”
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